Studies of a Bear
1620s?
Artist, Dutch, 1596 - 1674
Artwork overview
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Medium
brown wash with blue gouache over black chalk on blue-green laid paper, inlaid in old album page
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Credit Line
Gift of John Carter Brown IV and Elissa Brown in Memory of J. Carter Brown
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Dimensions
sheet: 50.2 × 29.6 cm (19 3/4 × 11 5/8 in.)
mount: 60 × 37 cm (23 5/8 × 14 9/16 in.) -
Accession
2017.132.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
J. Carter Brown [1934-2002], given to his wife Pamela Drexel Brown [1947-2005]; by descent to their children, John Carter Brown IV [born 1977] and Elissa Lucinda Brown [born 1983], New York; gift to NGA, 2017.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
recto: none; verso: by later hand, top left in brown ink: No. 209 teeckeninge van van Eyck 40
Markings
none
Wikidata ID
Q64592968